Upgrading the Cluster to a New Release

You do not need to place the cluster in non-cluster mode before
performing this upgrade because the upgrade always occurs in the new boot environment and
the existing boot environment remains unchanged. You can specify a name for the
new boot environment or you can use the auto-generated name. For instructions, see
How to Perform a Standard Upgrade in Oracle Solaris Cluster Upgrade Guide.

The Oracle Solaris OS is also updated to the latest release when
you upgrade the Oracle Solaris Cluster software.

Updating a Specific Package

IPS packages were introduced with the Oracle Solaris 11 operating system. Each IPS
package is described by a Fault Managed Resource Indicator (FMRI), and you use
the pkg(1) commands to perform the SRU update. Alternatively, you can also use
the scinstall -u command to perform an SRU update.

You might want to update a specific package to use an updated
Oracle Solaris Cluster data service agent.

How to Update a Specific Package

Become superuser or assume a role that provides solaris.cluster.admin RBAC authorization.

Update the package.

For example, to update a package from a specific publisher, specify the publisher
name in the pkg-fmri.

# pkg update pkg-fmri

Caution - If you use the pkg update command with no pkg-fmri specified, all installed
packages that have updates available are updated.

If a newer version of an installed package is available and is
compatible with the rest of the image, the package is updated to that
version. If the package contains binaries that have the reboot-needed flag set to true,
then performing a pkg update pkg-fmri automatically creates a new boot environment and
after the update you boot into the new boot environment. If the package
you are updating does not contain any binaries that force a reboot, then
the pkg update command updates the live image and a reboot is not necessary.

If you are updating a data service agent (ha-cluster/data-service/* or the generic
data service agent of ha-cluster/ha-service/gds), perform the following steps.